Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
A picture is a poem without words
No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Every old poem is sacred.
It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
Let your poem be kept nine years.
That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.
I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.
Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]
A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]
And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.
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